Washington Post Publishes Op-Ed by Mahmoud Khalil
“Why should protesting Israel’s indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians result in the erosion of my constitutional rights?”
This is the same Washington Post that refused to publish an op-ed by John McCain before the 2008 election.
FOX News reports:
Mahmoud Khalil rips ‘repressive’ Trump admin for eroding his rights in Washington Post op-ed
Columbia University anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil accused the Trump administration of eroding his constitutional rights in a Thursday column for The Washington Post.
Khalil, who was approved for deportation by a U.S. immigration judge last week at the behest of the U.S. government, argued in the piece that he is a victim of America’s “Democracy of convenience,” and that his rights have been erased because he is not aligned to those in power.
“I hope this writing will startle you into understanding that a democracy for some — a democracy of convenience — is no democracy at all. I hope it will shake you into acting before it is too late,” Mahmoud wrote…
Khalil’s Post column provided his response to Comans’ ruling and the government’s case against him, calling it “baseless.” He argued that the U.S. government’s “’evidence’” is “lifted directly from sensationalized tabloids.”
He proceeded to call out the Trump immigration agenda, accusing it of undermining American principles of liberty.
“Earlier that day, I sifted through letters from supporters. Two postage stamps displayed the American flag, one stating ‘liberty forever,’ the other proclaiming ‘justice forever.’ The irony is stunning, especially regarding what I’ve learned about how the administration exploits immigration law to enforce its repressive agenda.”
He also said the case against him has been “running roughshod over due process.”
“Why should protesting Israel’s indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians result in the erosion of my constitutional rights?” Khalil asked.
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“Israel’s indiscriminate killing . . . ”
He’s hallucinating an alternate reality.
Lying would be a better word.
My thoughts exactly.
If Israel wanted to kill Gazans indiscriminately, they wouldn’t send IDF troops in. They’d just carpet-bomb Gaza until the rubble bounces. The entire 10/7 counter-offensive would have been completed by sundown on 10/8, and would have been a heck of a lot quicker, cheaper, and less risky to Israeli soldiers than what they’re doing instead.
And Khalil damn well knows it.
Ergo, he’s lying.
Yes, he is, but that’s irrelevant. The first amendment doesn’t care whether speech is true, or whether a cause is valid. Someone protesting the end of slavery, or the defeat of the Third Reich, has the same rights as someone protesting abortion or Islamic terrorism.
He is not a citizen. He just proved his deportation justified.
Protesting against abortion or Islamic terrorism, or protesting in support of abortion or Islamic terrorism?
Oh wait, maybe you meant protesting against slavery ending, or the Third Reich being defeated? Your phrasing is slightly ambiguous.
“I hope this writing will startle you into understanding that a democracy for some — a democracy of convenience — is no democracy at all.”
Really sucks when it happens to the left for a change, does it?
Nice for Bezos to give an antisemite a platform. Next he’ll send him up for a few minutes into space. Say that’s an idea. Let’s let Bezos pack a launch with our favorite antisemites and illegal alien gang bangers and then Israel can shoot it down accidently of course.
This bozo also compares his stay in federal prison to the death camps in the Holocaust, because of coure he does; anything to hate Jews more. Last I checked the Jews in Auschwitz didn’t get to write op-ed pieces published in major newspapers while becoming celebrated as some kind of free speech icon. No they just got to be tortured, starved and die. Kahlil the clown can just keep on whining. He’s got it way good comapred to actual political prisoners around the world.
“This is the same Washington Post that refused to publish an op-ed by John McCain before the 2008 election.”
For years, the NY Times ran articles by Walter Duranty, apologist for Stalin and his Holodomor, who was on their staff. This is just more of the same
Duranty’s fraudulent reporting (“there is no famine,” and that kulaks and their families were not being “physically abolished”) won a Pulitzer prize. The Pulitzer committee has repeatedly refused to withdraw it, and the NYT claims they no longer have the physical trophy to return unilaterally. More of the same there, too.
Amazing that, just like his wife, he keeps up the anti-Israel tirade. He can do that, somewhere else.
He has no constitutional right to a visa.
He does, however, have a constitutional right not to be subject to adverse government action in retaliation for exercising his right to advocate genocide.
He is not a citizen. He gets to go home.
Now.
Advocating for genocide would constitute incitement and that combined with support for Hamas’ efforts would violate his visa terms no? And that leaves aside his paperwork ‘errors’.
Khalil needs to be either deported or incarcerated for the crime against humanity of supporting a terror group that reintroduced rape and infanticide as tools of war.